How much revenue did Inworld Origins make?

Inworld Origins is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Inworld Origins sell?

Q: How many copies did Inworld Origins sell?

9k to 14k copies, based on its 347 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 9k–14k; from 347 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Inworld Origins out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Inworld Origins's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 1.4M–2.1M

best case 2.1M (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc)

Games like Inworld Origins

The middle of these games

≈ 1.4M–2.1M copies

≈ $10.8M–$16.1M after Steam's cut

from ~35k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc at ≈ 1.6M–2.6M copies, ≈ $8.8M–$23.5M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 32 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 4 to 233.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (8 of 8) and Mystery (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Anime + Visual Novel, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2011 to 2024, and 2 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.6M–2.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $8.8M–$23.5M after Steam's cut $15.9M–$36.2M before the cut	$19.99	38k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeVisual Novel
Unheard - Voices of Crime 2019	Est. copies ≈ 976k–1.6M SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before the cut	$6.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectivePuzzle
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair 2016	Est. copies ≈ 1.4M–2.2M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $7.5M–$20.1M after Steam's cut $13.6M–$30.9M before the cut	$19.99	33k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	AnimeDetective
Doki Doki AI Interrogation 2024	Est. copies ≈ 13k–21k too small to compare SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $12k–$33k after Steam's cut $22k–$51k before the cut	$3.49	514 reviews Very Positive	Artificial IntelligenceDetective
Verbal Verdict 2024	Est. copies ≈ 223–363 too small to compare SteamSpy under 20k	Est. revenue $613–$2k after Steam's cut $1k–$3k before the cut	$9.99	9 reviews 9 user reviews	Early AccessDetective
Return of the Obra Dinn 2018	Est. copies ≈ 1.1M–1.7M SteamSpy 500k–1M	Est. revenue $5.9M–$15.7M after Steam's cut $10.6M–$24.2M before the cut	$19.99	35k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectiveMystery
L.A. Noire 2011	Est. copies ≈ 2.3M–3.8M SteamSpy 2M–5M	Est. revenue $12.8M–$34.4M after Steam's cut $23.2M–$52.9M before the cut	$19.99	37k reviews Very Positive	DetectiveCrime
Acolyte 2022	Est. copies ≈ 2k–3k too small to compare SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $5k–$13k after Steam's cut $9k–$20k before the cut	$10.99	64 reviews Mostly Positive	DetectiveArtificial Intelligence